3D printed accessories for astrophotography

Franco Grimoldi:
What about the video? What does it show?

Click the link and watch it….👍🏻

Franco Grimoldi:

AstroShed:

Franco Grimoldi:
What about the video? What does it show?

Click the link and watch it….👍🏻

I won't.

My point here is that I think that forum post shouldn't be a YouTube link w/o any description or selling point at all. I'm not watching videos now, I'm reading a forum thread in AstroBin. I clicked on the title to try to learn what could have been included in the video as, for instance, I do use 3D printed accessories.

That’s absolutely fine and your prerogative, have a nice evening….👍🏻

I've done a few things. Spacers being the easiest and most basic. Then I got a dew shield model off of thingiverse for my C8. Took forever to print, and unfortunately failed the first time about halfway through. That was a waste of time and filament. Then I flocked the inside to cut down on reflections.

Besides that I designed and printed mounting brackets for my mini pcs and power boxes. In the pictures below you can see both the one on my refractor and then the other picture shows my C8. I like the C8's design better because it holds things closer to the tube, but at the same time it might transfer some vibration to it. On the refractor, it raises the CG of the scope some, but works good enough for me. I've thought about redesigning it, just haven't had time.

Then I've designed and printed custom lens caps for taking sky flats, the refractor's also shown below. My C8's was made to fit on the end of the dew shield. Basically the same thing except larger.